The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy. Even at some two and a half million light-years distant, this immense spiral galaxy — spanning over 200,000 light years — is visible, although as a faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda. A bright yellow nucleus, dark winding […]
Showers today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 87 Humidity. 19 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, named for the figures in Greek mythology Fear and Panic. Detailed surface views of smaller moon Deimos are shown in both these panels. The images were taken in 2009, by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, NASA’s long-lived interplanetary internet satellite. The outermost […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 28C and a low of 28C. 96 Humidity. 15 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. via NASA https://ift.tt/yxm6s5J
Ringed ice giant Neptune lies near the center of this sharp near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The dim and distant world is the farthest planet from the Sun, about 30 times farther away than planet Earth. But in the stunning Webb view, the planet’s dark and ghostly appearance is due to atmospheric […]
AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 97 Humidity. 16 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Construction of the world’s largest wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section. A later expansion created an additional 80- by 120-foot test section. A Navy blimp, which would have been based at Hangars 2 and 3 at Moffett Field, patrols in the background. via NASA https://ift.tt/HRTECVy
About 70,000 light-years across, NGC 247 is a spiral galaxy smaller than our Milky Way. Measured to be only 11 million light-years distant it is nearby though. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from our perspective, it dominates this telescopic field of view toward the southern constellation Cetus. The pronounced void on one side of the […]
PM Thunderstorms today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 95 Humidity. 18 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Northeast.